for ann
Your room with its collage
cut from magazines, joss-sticks,
you in purple panties, breasts bare,
then together in bed
-the wind's blowing in the pines
I'm vaguely uneasy, a tension
hard to define.
Your voice on the telephone
tender, inquiring, yes,
this is an interlude
and in our different ways
we're both striving for a freedom
that's elusive
-this much we can share.
Cohen's songs and Easy Rider
in themselves are not significant,
part of your middle-class home
-I had breakfast with your mother
while you were still asleep.
Riding now round Poole Park
in a miniature train with the kids.
The yachts out
to Brownsea Island. It's all domestic
and I need the North
as I need my independence
before relationship is possible.
Autumn closes in
and one year since she died.
And all the patterns tilted into
strange shape
shifting as the months have passed
the mind cells
regenerating is that metaphor?
The firs and cedars
stir gently in the breeze
there's rain to come
though the sun's shining now.
Some of the times
we've made love come back
your body's quick juices, sweet smell,
disjointed letters on pink paper,
warmth in your eyes, breasts,
but the wind in the pine trees,
rippling the water of Poole harbour,
the children squabbling,
or that I like talking to you
that novel, Cisneros' poems,
your hair in my mouth, tangled
in sweat, the body's quick juices.
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